Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like,… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule. — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades,… — Wolfgang Kubicki Copy Share Image
Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate,… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon?… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image